Did you know..?

25  Textbooks*
=  One Mature Tree
=  150 Lbs of Coal
=  3,438 Gal. of Water

That simply recycling as few as 50 textbooks can save enough Air and Water, for one man or woman to shower, drink and breathe for an entire year.

When you recycle your books with Toucan Recycles, we find your books a new home.  Saving valuable natural resources.  Simply by getting your books to those who need and want the books you're not using today.


The 'Circle of Life', is a delicate balance.

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"Intricately interdependent, each of us is a unique strand in the fabric of life.  Yet each of us an expressway passenger on a collision course with the extinction of the human race.  Every three (3) minutes; another animal species is forced into extinction, their invaluable genetic code vanished.  More than 300 acres of forest lands laid waste, forever destroying the richness of nature's beauty and too quickly unraveling the very fabric of life on this planet."

 


If Americans could eat just 10% less meat, the saved grain and soybeans, could feed 60 million more people, the same number who starve each year. 

  • By 2020, unless we stop the slaughter now, there will be no
    Elephant's left in Africa.    - Defenders Magazine
     
  • Think Quick !  Less than 5.9 million square km or 23.88%
    Virgin Rainforests, with 57.71% Rainforests Species remain.
     
  • Each year, America produces the equivalent of 10 lbs of plastic
    for every human on Earth.  Please reuse your plastic bags.
     
  • Each day, L.A. residents combined, literally drive from Earth to
    Mars, some 142 million miles.  Did someone say... "Bus" !
     
  • Only 3% of Earth's water, is fresh water.  Don't waste it !
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Over ONE BILLION TREES  are consumed each year ---
to make disposable diapers.

The U.S. uses an average 450 Billion gallons of water every day.  The average American, uses 1.6 million gallons of water a year.

Every year, waste aluminum in the U.S. could rebuild the entire U.S. commercial airline fleet three (3) time
 


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25  Textbooks*
Experts do not currently agree as to the exact translation of how many books, equal a tree.  This is in part because the size of the books in question and the type of paper used, which can vary a great deal.  The estimates shown on this page, on Toucan Recycles business cards and other materials is therefore based on an average of what the various experts have determined, and applied to the average size of a typical, Algebra or Biology college textbook.